Amy stared at her replica with disdain. "But Annie! Up against me, Amy, Number Eight, and Tasha, you have no chance of winning."
Annie looked down. "Yes, Seven," she said. "You would be correct. If I were not alone, this situation would be almost hopeless."
"You're not alone?" Amy asked nervously.
"Oh, Seven. It would be foolish of me to show up alone. First of all, you do realize that the Amys and Andys who do not attend Hogwarts go to the other schools. Now," she said.
As soon as Annie had said that, an Amy and an Andy came up beside her. "This is Amy, Number Twelve, and this is Andy, Number Six. They are here to help me."
"Are you challenging us?" Amy Eight asked, realizing that with only her, Amy, and Tasha, the odds were against them.
"Yes," Annie said. "I am. And there is no one around. They are all in their dorms by now. So it's just us."
Amy eyed Annie, and tried to focus. Amy Twelve sent a streak of blue lightning hurling from her wand, headed straight for Eight, and Eight sent it back, almost hitting Twelve. Twelve then sent a stormy shadow at all three of them, and Tasha lit up her wand so that they could still see.
"Way to go," Eight said. "You're friend's not half bad."
Annie took that moment of glee to send a fireball to Amy, who used her wand to drench it with water. After a very long battle, Tasha was badly hurt, and had to leave the fight up to Amy and Eight. The good guys were pretty much losing.
Quickly, Amy mouthed to Eight, "Aim for their ears," she said. Amy remembered the time when she was twelve-years-old, and had pierced her ears and become terribly sick. Luckily, she had learned well from that experience.
Even more luckily, Eight could lip-read, and was aiming for Andy Six's ears. Amy tried to get at Annie, but she only hit Twelve. Andy Six was down too.
"I do not understand!" Annie wailed. "We are winning! Get up now!" she shrieked.
Amy Twelve staggered up, and tried to send a fireball at Amy, but it was weak, and didn't even make it to Amy. "Are you not going to help either?" Annie demanded Andy Six.
"I feel nauseous," he said.
"What did you do to them?" Annie demanded.
"We eliminated their clone powers," Amy braved.
This made Annie shriek, and run off. She couldn't believe that Seven had beaten her! And there was only one thing she could do. She ran as fast as she could to the hideout, where she went quite often. Although she was slightly worried about getting caught by the teachers, she knew that she would just be a blur of black, (from her robes,) to them, and she would buy herself time to make it.
Walking down the narrow passageway to her leader's hideout, which only she knew of, she knocked hard on the underground door.
"Annie?" the leader asked.
"Yes," she said.
The cloaked figure opened the door, and let her in. "Amy Twelve and Andy Six had their powers eliminated somehow, when Amy Seven and Eight hit their ears with magic."
"Really?" the cloaked figure sighed. "Does this mean that those two are of no use to us now?"
Annie shook her head. "If the holes in their ears can be repaired, I do not see how this would be a problem."
"Okay then," the cloaked figure said. "I shall send Amy, Number Ten and Andy Three, and Nine to retrieve the two clones. Then, we shall all attack the school. I shall summon an army by daybreak."